Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Cokie Roberts

People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.

Michael Kazin

Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

Bayan Jabr

Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.

Allan Bristow

The stress and strain of the last month took a serious toll on various health problems that I was already facing before the hurricane. After consulting with my physician, it became clear that stepping down was the only decision that made sense for me and my family.

Chris Cornell

The show was very emotional. We all have so much experience that we were trying to trick ourselves into believing we weren't nervous. Afterward, we were sitting around saying the normal things you say after a show. Then suddenly we all became quite overwhelmed as it dawned on us that we had just done a very special thing.

Randall Jarrell

The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

Gillian Jacobs

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.

Mira Nair

I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Kevin Towers

After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.

Mark Buehrle

Actually, I got out in the woods and kind of cleared my mind,

Michael Moran

A nomination does not mean it will have clear sailing to being listed. What gets listed on the national register, unfortunately, is subject to the will of the governor's office.

Wayne Porter

Are they making it clear what consumers are getting? No.

Robbie Loomis

are quite clear - get things stabilized, and then start the rebuilding process.

Erskine Bowles

Any staff who are found to be engaging in such conduct will be fired immediately. In addition, we have make clear to persons outside the White House that we will not tolerate such conduct.

Joanne Lewis

There is a stigma in consulting Mental Health, ... Students don't like it.

Jake Siewert

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

Eric Woerth

We have to take the path of dialogue. We can't have reforms without consulting the social partners.

Edward Weston

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Bobby Holik

The most important thing is limiting the goalie equipment. The last ten years, I was looking at the goal and there was nothing to shoot at. It was like facing a wall.

Lori Wada

You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this kind of prison term.

Tommy Thompson

We have a real serious problem facing us in America. It's nothing to get real worried about, just be careful. If you are out, make sure you put some mosquito repellent on,

Ron Gardenhire

We were facing one of the better righthanders in the league tonight. We knew it was going to be tough, runs would be at a premium. He made it really tough on us. We really didn't have many opportunities.

Geoffrey Smith

We don't want people to panic, but they need to realize we're facing a very grave situation.

Brian Dawkins

We mixed it up. When you're facing that kind of coverage, maybe (Moss) doesn't go out and run like he usually would run. In his mind, he's thinking, well, I can't get past. It takes a weapon away from that offense.

Paul Wolfowitz

We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.

Jonathan Crisp

Let her go home, send her home, ... She will probably in all likelihood be facing this stigma for the rest of her life.

James Stephens

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

Nick Rimando

Another week to two weeks, hopefully less than that. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy before I go out there again.

Bill Maris

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

David Bernstein

Once we established that it was safe and did what we hoped it would do in normal healthy adults, then we move to our most vulnerable population, older adults and children.

Alan Marks

a real loss to people and to the overall health of the community.

Siti Supari

The suspected person is now in a healthy condition.

Ted Saskin

A financially healthy league is a positive for everyone, including the players, in the long run. We've always wanted teams to do well.

Lorrin Lee

Study healthy people to learn how to be healthy.

Derrick Rose

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Gary Pruitt

You're the last mass medium here. Everything else is fragmenting.

Edward Hirsch

You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.

Busta Rhymes

You stop at all of the greasy nasty-ass truck stops and you never get a proper rest. But every night you party like it's the last night that you're ever going to have to party.

Mark Hoppus

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

Wayne Pivac

I've been in touch with Nicky and will be doing the same over the months to come.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Charles III

For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenever you choose, not when the weather chooses.

Martin Havlat

If we don't play, then my month is over. That'd be just great.

Jason Lee

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

Hillary Clinton

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated.

Jason Kubel

No problems at all to report. It hasn't been sore in a long time.

Bob Hazel

Teachers have enough problems as it is. It's sure not positive.

Kurt Woerner

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

Bernie Ecclestone

I understand now that there may be some problems with that.

David Freeman

You're trying to put all of this in to solve problems you caused.

Scott Bullock

Blight 50 years ago entailed serious problems and neglect,

Richard Langford

Conceptually, I don't have any problems with this idea. It's just a question of where do we start and how do we get there.

Valentino Castellani

We are very satisfied and committed. We don't have any structural problems. Everything is working. ... We will have always some small problems to solve. What is important is to solve them quickly.

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

John Newcombe

Things will get pretty serious if he (Philippoussis) doesn't get something going by the end of the year.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Sam Hill

There are some pretty serious felonies on the list,

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Andrew Denton

I've become a much more serious young insect.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Mike Stratton

They were stepping in it and stepping on it.

Gray Eklund

It's going to be bittersweet stepping out on the field.

Justin Hayes

It's going to be like stepping on a rake.

Ben Okri

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Jason Dufner

I don't like stress because stress stresses me out.

Janet Street-Porter

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Janine Benyus

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Jane Wagner

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

Bruce Forsyth

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bill James

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

Eckhart Tolle

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Charles Bukowski

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.